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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 5031abfe4a..7799cec1dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec) updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean -it before Git 2.0 comes. +it before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are +run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the +current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different +from today's version in such a situation. Updates since v1.8.2 @@ -32,6 +35,17 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 UI, Workflows & Features + * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it + integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream, + which defaults to blue). + + * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to + show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary. + + * "git cherry-pick $blob" and "git cherry-pick $tree" are nonsense, + and a more readable error message e.g. "can't cherry-pick a tree" + is given (we used to say "expected exactly one commit"). + * The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it). @@ -178,6 +192,18 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to + "git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said + there was a programming error to trigger the die handler + recursively. + (merge 1ece66b jk/a-thread-only-dies-once later to maint). + + * "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into input + buffer around as human readble object names. This was not a huge + problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in + error output. + (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint). + * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients, like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients. |